How I Organize and Plan my Work
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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The previous video focusing more on how I keep my notebooks:
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Great content as always, sir. Thanks! Cheers from Brazil! 🥂
Thanks, and cheers!
Your study plan is excellent! I do a bit different with books, i always check the pdf before buying them... for me that's the only way to be sure i buy the right book for me. Me too I like a thick fat book with a lot of content, but i prefer to give priority to quality... anyway i buy several books on a subject, so I'll certainly end up with a great coverage anyhow. Also i find that there are a lot of excellent modern textbooks that are more pedagocic than "the classics", so i hunt for those little gems. Springer, CRC Press are a good starting point for the hunt.
Looks like we have similar strategies. Old books can have old notation, and that's problematic. Also, "the classics" were written for math majors at universities and assume no one would dare teach themselves from the book.
I'm reading a book on habits by Charles Duhigg, and indeed noting down data such as progress, what you've done, what you're going to do helps you stick to the plan even more. I've noticed this by doing it naturally and what you're doing is clearly the right thing, also it makes me happy to see that I'm not the only one to self study maths and I intend to follow your channel more closely and get inspired by your videos. Thanks again for your initiative !
Thanks for the kind words. The internet, and especially UA-cam allow for a depth and breadth for self-learning that was impossible before them. Keep at it!
I am glad to see that others have noticed the benefits of micro-logging of progress.
P.S. The reference is:
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Paperback) by Charles Duhigg
I want to express my admiration for your ambitious plan and appreciate your willingness to share your journey, including both its challenges and successes.
I have a few questions regarding your approach to self-studying mathematics. Specifically, what is your strategy for solving exercises? Do you focus on all exercises, or only those with solutions provided at the back of the textbook? I often find myself unable to progress without completing all the odd-numbered exercises, and at times both odd and even, which can be quite time-consuming.
Additionally, I am interested in your methods for retaining information. Do you utilize spaced repetition by revisiting previous exercises? I would greatly appreciate your insights on these topics.
Thanks for the kind words!
My goal is always to solve every single exercise in the book (odd AND even and even when in an appendix). This is an important goal for me and a source of motivation. However, as you rightly mention, it is quite time-consuming. I will skip some exercises to keep a better pace and for various reasons: I am ready to move on from that section, or the exercises get too difficult (luckily the more books I read the less this happens).
For any given subject, I have to do at least two passes, and each pass gets a different book. This allows me to revisit all of the material with a long time difference between the first time and the second time. For instance, for Linear Algebra, I will be repeating all of the content with Friedberg Insel Spence after I am done with Anton. Spaced repetition is very important for retention. I plan to also do third rounds at some point for Number Theory and Mathematical Analysis. Number Theory is still my Number One, so I reallly want to do more of that.
Thanks for your videos. How many hours a day are you studying and how many days in a week? What time of the day is your favorite for self-study?
I wake up early enough and that gets me one consistent hour per weekday. Friday afternoons I can put in a few more. My favorite time is Friday afternoon. I keep that up steady. Then some weekday holidays I can log in some long hours. Towards the end of the year I usually have leave and I use some of that for math as well. I dont do any math late in the day and over the weekend but I always fall asleep thinking about math, especially if I worked on something interesting. I have wanted to take a long weekend off and do a ton on say Thursday Friday then Monday Tuesday, an experiment I want to try out either later this year or later next year. Early days I tried math during the weekend and that was a horrendous bust; my mind hurt for a week after that: never again. Monday morning is just warmup, and Tuesday morning is the best one. Wednesday morning and Thursday morning are better for problems, and Friday afternoon, with more time, is good for everything. I try to leave reading for Monday morning.
I try to do one hour everyday after work, and a bit more on the weekend. Accounting the times I fail to respect the schedule, I make about 6 hours per week, consistently.
@@naakatube That's a great output. You said the key word: consistently.
Nice!
Thanks!
@@mathematicaladventures Do you have any book recommendations for abstract algebra?
I plan to go with Hungerford but Gallian is equally appropriate for my first Abstract Algebra self-learn. I will show these books in upcoming videos.
@@mathematicaladventures Thanks!
I love this content! Perhaps a small community will develop from your channel in which subcribers like me will return to areas of mathematics that were not a significant part of earlier studies. We could share our experiences with either re-learning or taking time to start new areas of mathematical study. For me, in electrical engineering we stopped before proof based algebra and calculus. I now want to explore those areas, not because I have to, but because I want to continue to learn. 🙂
I also started my studies in Electrical Engineering and had the exact same experience. I was so ignorant about the proof-based central aspect of Mathematics. Hundreds of proofs reviewed and hopefully learned later, I don't feel as ignorant and the concept of a long proof does not seem so intimidating.
The internet, and especially youtube, has indeed enabled a community of self-learners in various subjects. Yes, I could have learned some of this math without these tools, but now it's just so much easier.
Thank you for the update! Your journey is VERY inspiring.
Thanks for the kind words!
The Strang books are excellent, also the linear alg book by Howard Anton is great.
I agree, and Strang's youtube videos are epic level great.
I'm taking notes on this!
If I forgot something, I will fill it in in here.
A man of his word! Thank you so much.
If I have the time, I do it!
When I'll have more time (probably in one year), I'm considering inserting in my study routine a one hour "random exercise" daily session on content i already studied from previous courses. I hope that will make sure i master the basics and don't forget them. What do you think about that?
I am planning the same, I just haven't thought about how to do it. Same objective as yours: I need to ensure that I have mastered what I have learned in as permanent a way as possible.